Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-08

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held at the National bank to protest against
the removal. Appropriate remonstrances
I we're dispatched 70 the war department, and
| to the Texas senators and representatives IN
congress-
A sensational development in the street
car trouble il San Francisco occurred on
the Geary street line An oiler, VINO de-
/ scended into manhOle in the course Of his
duties on the road near Van Ness avenue,
/ found two dynamite cartridges with fuse
alta hed IN the tunnel through which the
cable runs under the track. Further search
/ was made and two more Of these degtruc-
tive agents were found. 1t is believed that
the cartridges were placed IN the tunnel on
Sunday night in readiness to be exploded
the next morning when the assault was
i4lnEde on the employees Of the road, and that
the presence Of the police and the deter
| mined flight they made prevented q consum-
nation Of the dasLardly scheme.
Judge Cooley, as receiver of the Wabash
| system east of the Mississippi river, has sp-
I pointed II. Q. Moore general agent of the
/ receiver. In Judge COOie Is nrst order after
| taking charge of the road, Assistant General
/ Superintendent q. W. Stoves is named as
| general superintendent. Robert Andrews,
I of the Richmond & Danville line was named
| as general manager, and William Duncan,
/ Of the Mobile & Ohio, Was made general
/ freight agent.
/ A board of army officers has been ap-
pointed TO meet at the war department.
/ January 3, for the purpose Of revising and
condensing the regula ions Of the army and
] preparing a new edition OF the same. The
GARD consists of General s. v. Benet, chief
| ordnance; Colonel l.. 5. Otlss Twentieth
/ infantry; Lieutenant Colonel Robert n.
/ Scott, Third artillery, and First Iieuten-
/ Mt Edward Davis, Third artillery.
/ The jury in the Bayview riot case in Mil
waukee, Wis, reported for the second time
that they could not agree. The first report
was made at II a. m. JuPge Sloan sent them
sidered favorable for the defendants. Later,
| John GOudek, one of the BayvieW rioters
was found guilty; Andrew BOuncil was &c
/ qu'ted.
The federal court at Indianapolis refused
I to quGsh the indictments for bribery OF
| voters found against the republican sheriff
/ and auditor elect Of Orange county, Indiana.
/ II also declined to release Perkins, the re-
/ calcltrant Witness,O on writ of habeas corpus
/ whose case will now be brought before
I Judge Green on appeal.
The executive committee of the Cattle
/ Growers association, OF the United States
forwarded communication to congress
relative to the eItirpatiOn of pleurO penu-
/ mOnia. They ask the appointment of
| commissioner.
at Racine, Wis, recently was held The
/ golden wedding of Alfred Cary and wife, in
the presence or all the witnesses Of this orig
4 inal ceremony, which took place in one of
/ the first finished houses OF that settlement
/ William Cluth, a resident of Union Mills,
/ Indiana, was found wandering about La
/ Porte, Ind, in a demented condition. He
had large amount of money, notes, and
I other valuable papers in his possession, and
| the deputy sheriff took him IN charge until
| his friends could be notified.
A few weeks ago Miss Carrie Dove. a re-
/ specially connected young lady Of Fulton,
| KY, gave birth to an illegitimate child. She
confessed that a yong man named Nance
I betrayed her under promise of marriage
William Dove, a brother of the girl, called
| on Nance, and the latter refusing to marry
her, Dove struck him with club, killing him
instantly
The prOprietors Of the Boston Herald an
nOunced on New Years to their employees a
proposition 20 give to th6m fer the current
year portion Of the net profit OF the bust
ness, after reserving the interest on the value
OF the property.
It is reported in Nogales, Arizona, that
severe fighting had taken place between the
national troops and revolutionists in Sinola,
Mexico, and several hundred were killed on
both sides. The report Is not confirmed.
W. 7. Hornaday, of the National museum
at Washington, who has been collecting
| specimens IN Montana, reports The visible
supply of buffalo at sixty in the Yellowstone
divide and 100 in Texas.
The strike Of the brakemen on the Mobile
| g. Ohio road is at an end They agreed, if
I It Is instituted against them by the company
/ were dismissed, they would make no more
/ trouble. They viii not be reinstated.
! The newsboys' home of Chicago gained
/ S2o4 through scheme Of clothing house.
/ which solicited guesses at 10 cents each as
/ to the number of seeds contained in huge
/ squash. A Missourian won an OvercOat by
placing the number at 265-
The grand jury at Chicago, in a report
made to Judge Collins, put upon the mayor
| and the police department the responsible
/ y for the existence of saloons harbOrDg
thieves and prostitutes.
! The secretary OF the treasury has called
/ SlO,OOO,OCO in per cent. bonds for Febru-
/ airy L. Holders of these securities can have
Them redeemed at once, with interest to the
date of presentation.
/ Citizens of Detroit and Grant Rapids,
representing railroad and steamboat inter
! ssts. have subscribed 100000 for a hotel
| at Mackinac leland, 70 be opened next
July.
V. P. Snyder, deputy comptroller of cur
| rencys has been appointed examiner of
[ national banks at the cities of New York,
Brooklyn and jersey City, in place Of A. NJ.
/ Serbia
The Washington Star says that Governor
Oglesby, of uliaOiss declared most positively
/ and uneQuivOcally that he would not be q
candidate Cor the seat in the senate made
vacant by General Logan's death.
President Cleveland is still confined to his
| room, and suffers intensely. Assistant Sur
! geOn O'Riley, of the army, admits that the
ailment may prove serious, but he hopes
| that his patient will be ont IN a few days.
i The Northwest Travelling Mems associa-
ton, Low in session at Chicago, has re-
elected James @. Miller president. The
treasurer reports cash balance of S10,O8J
/ Under peremptOry orders by special agents
of the general land office, illegal fences were
last week removed from PA, 900 acres of the
public domain in the Denver district.
President Eliot, of Harvard college, is
/ making preparations for an extends tour
OF Europe. Charge Of the college will de-
vOlve upon Prof. Clement F. Smith.
The postofice department is about to ar
range with the postal authorities Of Cuba
| for an improvement IN the method Of e1-
changing registered mall matter.
The insolvency is reported of Jacob Cas-
/ telberg, leWeler IN Baltimore, and Charles
| Winchester, the noted capitalist of Ashburn-
ham, Mass.
The public debt statement TO be issued
| Monday viii probably show a reduction in
| the debt during the past month of over
General Albert G. Lawrence, of Newport
! R. l., who was stricken with pneumonia
about two weeks ago, died here.
The whisky pool has reeeived notice Of
/ withdrawal this week from Mr.. Kidd, the
Des Moines distIller.
Rev. Trumon, NJ. Pos D. D., the oldest
! Protestant minister Of St. Louis, died Of
I heart disease.
The Mahoning Valley coal miners. 5000,
/ return to work ct an advance of 10 cents
per ton
The Hotel Laelede at Chicago was badly